If you can get Future Islands front-growler Samuel T. Herring to
sing on your record, you should absolutely do that. Lately, people
seem to be figuring that out. A few weeks ago, Herring showed up
alongside Earl Sweatshirt to sing the hook on Gangrene's "Play It
Cool." Now, Herring has teamed up with Du Blonde, the British
singer-songwriter formerly known as Beth Jeans Houghton. Herring
shows up near the end of "Mind Is On My Mind," a cluttered and
skittering weird-pop song from the forthcoming album Welcome
Back To Milk. It is a very strange song, and he sounds great
on it. Below, listen to the track and read a statement about it
from Du Blonde.

Maya Jane Coles has been quietly ruling the international
electronic underground music scene for years now, steadily building
a following and biding her time. Since Nicki Minaj, Drake and Lil
Wayne's radio-dominating hit "Truffle Butter" sampled Coles' "What
They Say," what better time for her to focus on building a
stateside reputation? Donning the moniker Nocturnal Sunshine, she
released the debut single from "Take Me There" a few weeks ago and
dropped a video to accompany it today. Directed by The Fashtons,
the visuals depict the British-Japanese producer in a series of
enveloping veils, poses and sheets that reflect the song's moody
twists and turns. Watch it below.

Listening to Fred Thomas' All Are Saved often feels like
traveling down the path of most resistance. Thoughts are thought
and instantly contradicted, revelations made and then backtracked
-- it's a beautiful mess of ideas and doubts, bold declarations and
crippling neuroses. There is no easy way out, there are no simple
answers. It is confessional in the truest sense, a look inside of a
mind that lives and breathes and regrets and is never sure of
exactly what to say. His musings are fodder for analysis, specific
couplets begging to be treasured. It's a record that's most
rewarding when you sit down and allow yourself to pore over the
lyrics, a 40-minute respite from flicking between a dozen tabs on
the internet and absorbing things piecemeal. In many ways, All
Are Saved is a writer's record, a gift to look over every
prickly line and clever turn of phrase. But above all, it's an
overwhelmingly human record, one that never strays too far from its
heart.

Baltimore's Diamond Youth already have a few solid EPs
out, including 2013's Orange and 2014's Shake, and
they're now ready to release their first full length. It's called
Nothing Matters and will be out on May 19 via Topshelf
(pre-order). Like a handful of their previous tracks, new single
"Thought I Had It Right" sounds like Queens of the Stone Age going
power pop, and it suits them here as well as it does on the best
tracks on their EPs. Check it out -- the song premieres below.

Diamond Youth also have a BrooklynVegan-presented tour coming up
with headliners Superheaven and openers Rozwell Kid.
It hits NYC on May 15 at The Studio at Webster Hall, and
tickets for that show are still available. Diamond Youth
were also added to NJ's Skate & Surf (day after Webster), which
their tourmates play as well.

Escape from Evil, for me, is our most
spiritual album, and one of its themes is coming to a place of
acceptance of one’s own self-perpetuating pain, and finding
new tools over the course of life that enables one to do so. This
piece held me in its loving arms during a period in which nothing
else offered respite, it is a safe space for anyone who cannot
sleep. — Geoff Graham, Lower Dens

My Morning Jacket has offered a new preview of
their forthcoming seventh studio album, The
Waterfall. Following the high-flying lead single “Big
Decisions”, the Louisville rockers opt for a more
slow-burning haunter in “Spring (Among the Living)”.
Clocking in at a hearty six minutes, it features some truly gnarly
electric licks and coyote-like howls.

Listen in below via the visualizer.

The Waterfall hits stores on May 4th through
ATO/Capitol Records. In support, the band — one of the best
festival headliners of the year — will embark on a
massive world tour.

The Waterfall Tracklist:
01. Believe (Nobody Knows)
02. Compound Fracture
03. Like A River
04. In Its Infancy (The Waterfall)
05. Get The Point
06. Spring (Among the Living)
07. Thin Line
08. Big Decisions
09. Tropics (Erase Traces)
10. Only Memories Remain

The L.A. bass-music producer Shlohmo makes gooey, melodic music
that slinks and throbs in some darkly compelling ways. Last year,
he teamed up with the great R&B singer Jeremih for the
enjoyable-as-hell No More EP. Next week, he'll release his
new solo instrumental album Dark Red. We've posted the
early tracks "Emerge From Smoke," "Buried," and "Beams," and now
you can stream the whole thing at The New York Times.
Dark Red is out 4/7 via True Panther/WeDidIt.

Swedish post-hardcore greats Refused briefly reunited in
2012, said the reunion was over, but then announced festival dates
this year and also have hinted at a new album. Now they announced a
run of US club dates, including two in NYC.

The tour has them playing 500-ish cap venues, which are much
smaller than the last tour's Terminal 5 show and the Williamsburg
Park show that was cancelled (but not smaller than the Europa show
they played to make up for the cancellation). The tour stops in NYC
on June 3 at Bowery Ballroom and June 4 at Music Hall of
Williamsburg. Tickets for those shows go on sale Friday
(4/3) at noon.

Tropics continued his evolution into an
electronic pop troubadour on this year’s Rapture LP.
Now, he’s shared a video for sullen standout
‘Blame’, which revels in slow motion and splattered
paint. “I wanted to collaborate with [director] Chloe Hayward
in exploring an idea of bringing to life the artwork for
‘Blame’ and Rapture,” he writes.
“We also had fun painting and smashing things.”
Rapture is out now via Innovative
Leisure.

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"Regeneration" is the first thing we've heard from the South East
London band Inheaven, and the song itself contains just about all
we know about them. It's a toss-up between delicately-spun female
vocals, brash, zealous guitar noise and a half-shout of a chorus
that wails against aging, generations (saw that one coming, right?)
and friendships. There's plenty of angst but no real animosity.
Today we're premiering the video for the track, and it's a
post-modern blur of newspaper headlines, handwritten notes, faded
landscapes and head-banging teens -- who may or may not be Inheaven
members as they've chosen to go the anonymous route for now.
"Regeneration" watches like a home video run through a time machine
that's set to pull up every scene of rebellion and aggression from
the last half a century. Watch it below.

Led Zeppelin are in the midst of a massive reissue project, and
that means we're probably going to be getting all sorts of
unearthed rarities and early versions of tracks. "Brandy &
Coke" is just that -- an early version of "Trampled Under Foot"
that they band shared on their website back in February.
(Similarly, they shared an alternative version of "The Rain Song"
last September).

Upset is something of a supergroup at this point. Previously,
vocalist/guitarist Ali Koehler played drums in Vivian Girls and
Best Coast, and Upset's current drummer, Patty Schemel, was
formerly Hole's percussionist. Bass player Rachel Gagliardi is also
in Slutever, and guitarist Lauren Freeman is a member of Long Beach
pop punk garage outfit Benny The Jet Rodriguez (formerly Jennifer
Prince of La Sera was part of the group). Listening to Upset drives
all these other bands completely out of your mind, though, with
their smattering of pop-punk energy and anxiety-addled rock riffs.

A bundle of excellent DJs join the line-up for the
Croatian seaside party.

Stop Making Sense has expanded its 2015 bill
and revealed who’ll be playing its boat parties on the
Adriatic Sea this July. German DJ and producer DJ
Koze brings his eccentric take on house music to the
Tessellate boat party on Friday, while New York crowdpleaser
Levon Vincent will toast his acclaimed new
album with a set on the Warm boat alongside Nick
Höppner.

The Revenge, aka UK producer Graeme Clark, is
the Saturday headliner for Not So Silent at the festival’s
Beach Bar, while The Black Madonna, creative
director at Chicagos famous Smart Bar, tops the bill on Sunday. The
Friday night will see some homegrown talent in the shape of
Croatian DJ and radio host Jan Kinl and a
competition winner representing the local scene.

Check out the full line-up so far below. The new names join
Skream, Jackmaster, Anja Schneider, Nick Höppner, Anthony
Naples and tons momres in the idyllic Garden Tisno.

Stop Making Sense takes place from July 16-19. The Garden Tisno
is offering four-day or week-long accommodation options and
flexible ticket packages starting from £128, while
festival-only tickets cost £80. Keep up to date via the
festival’s Facebook page and grab tickets
from the

The Rolling Stones will be back on the road
this summer for what they're calling the Zip Code tour. It will
feature a stage that extends deep into the audience, new
state-of-the-art video screens and a setlist heavy on their most
famous songs. "We are excited to be back in North America playing
stadiums this summer," Mick Jagger said in a press release. "We are
looking forward to being back onstage and playing your favorite
songs." You can watch a tour announcement video below.

The 15 dates announced for the Zip Code tour do not include a
NYC-area show -- Buffalo and Pittsburgh are about as close as it
gets -- but tickets for all US shows go on sale
April 13 (the Quebec date goes on sale April 11).

In other news, the band's 1971 album Sticky Fingers is
being reissued on May 26 in a variety of formats. The fanciest of
those is a "super deluxe" box set that includes a bonus CD
featuring previously unreleased alternate takes and live
performances, a hardback book and more. Details on all the
different versions that will be available are here.